﻿496 60o JPHEGOPTERIS. § 1. EUPHEGOPTERlS. 



ereclo-patent, lowest largest, 25 — 50 c.M. long. Pimiulae close, 10 — 15 c.M. 

 long. Ullimate divisions numerous, sessile, adnate to the rachis, the apex 

 blunt, the edge crenate, or pinnatifid and crenate. Texture herbaceous; 

 rachis and under surface hairy or fibrillose on the costae and veins. Sori 

 copious, placed near or in the ultimate sinuses, + covered by the partially 

 recurved margin as in Hypolepis. 



Vaa'. riiguSwisa^: Fronds firmer; rachis densely viscid; edges recur- 

 ved + as in Cheilanthes. 



Nearly pantropical, extending to Japan, New Zealand and the West ^ 

 East African Islands; not from continental Africa. 



* (18) Pli. Keraucflreniifiiia, Mann, Pr. Amer. Ac, VII, 218; 

 Poly podium Keraudrenianum, Gaud., Hk. Bk., Syn Fil., 313; Freyc, Voy. Ur. 

 Phys., Bot., tab. VII ; Dryopteris Keraudreniana, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Nephrodium 

 Keraudrenianum, Dials; in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, 177. 



Stipes 100 — 200 c.M. long, stramineous or brov^nish, polished. Fronds 

 3()0 — 450 c.M. lor)g. subscandent. Pinnae distant, the lower ones 30 — 90 

 c.M. long, 15 — 40 c.M. broad. Pinnulae lanceolate, ± spreading, pinnatifid 

 •/^-way down or nearly or quite to the costa into lanceohite-deltoid or oblong, 

 + spreading, bluntish, entire, crenate or incised segments. Texture herba- 

 ceous, rachises stramineous; both surfaces naked or the under side hairy; 

 veinlets pellucid. Sori submarginal. 



Java, Celebes; Hawaii. 



« (19) Ph. subcounexa, Christ, Warb., Mons., I, 85 ; Dryopteris 

 subconnexa, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Stipes strong, ± 50 c.M. long, clothed like the rachis with long, greyish- 

 brown hairs. Fronds + 45 — 50 c.M. long, broad, deltoid. Pinnae very dis- 

 tant, 6 — 8 on each side, to + 25 c.M. long, petiolate. Pinnulae deltoid-ovate, 

 the lowest the longest, the higher ones pinnatifid, the lower pinnate at the 

 base. Tertiary divisions + 4 m.M. broad, the higher ones entire, ovate, short- 

 acuminate, the lower coarsely toothed. Texture herbaceous; veins conspicuous, 

 forked. Sori medial, numerous, not close, mixed with white paraphyses. 

 — The whole plant pilose. 



Batjan. 



* (20) Ph. distant, Mett,, Christ, Parnkr. d. Erde, 274; Polypo^ 

 dium distans, Don, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 96; P. paludosum, BL, Flor. Jav., II, 



